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That would make it even worse.

I doubt Nike or the NBA would cut down the uniform rotation, but I could see them changing the prompt from city/local-inspired looks to something else.

I actually like that Wizards City except for the Blazers-esque sash.

I blame whoever decided to stop wearing silver pants on the road anymore after 1999. The mess they've made with their current uniforms was just the next step. I actually wonder if it's one of those superstitious things. The last time they wore silver pants on the road, they had a huge meltdown in Philly with four INTs and three fumbles.

It does seem like they only wear red like 5 times a year, sometimes even less. The one recent exception being 2019 where, between the standard home and Color Rush, they wore red 8 times.

If you think about it, the Patriots were the first team to get the "Reebok treatment" even though Adidas was their supplier back then. That set had all the same design elements that Reebok took and ran with for the next decade. The only difference between those uniforms and the Bills or Cardinals is that they won more.

Adidas themselves haven't bothered trying to make it work in football, or maybe they haven't figured out how to do it yet. UW, GT, BC, USF still have all the usual problems with gold.

There's no such thing as a proper look for the Bills that doesn't have red helmets and socks.

Maryland's uniforms just look cheap now. And they're using the same stupid halftone effect on the numbers that the Commanders use on their infamous road jerseys.

The only thing saving the Saints from being the Cowboys in gold is that Nike adjusted the colors on the jerseys to match the helmets and pants, as dull as it is. I will say that the whole "khaki pants" thing didn't start with Nike. It's been a consistent problem since they first reintroduced the gold pants in 1986.

I swear they've been saying this every year for half a decade and it's amounted to nothing.

Unpopular opinion: that Browns set kind of falls into the same category as the 2014 Bucs to me: a few tweaks away, not totally unsalvageable. Get rid of the stupid pants wordmarks and complete the stripes, change the numbers to white on the brown jersey and brown on the white jersey, and they would have been okay. They probably still would have been scrapped because of their association with the Hue era, but they wouldn't be hated as much in hindsight. I still think they handled the sleeve stripes better than the alternative of trying to cram double-decker stripes from the 1940s into progressively shrinking sleeve caps. The new shades of brown and orange looked noticeably better on the field, which is why they stayed the same even after the Browns otherwise went back to the old uniforms. The brown facemasks were also a huge improvement over the previous grey ones, and those have stuck around too.

The Chargers have been losing games like this for decades. I assure you, it has little to do with anything Staley's doing or not doing. He'll eventually be replaced by the next Madden Create-a-Coach who's just happy to be employed. No actual coach with options is going anywhere near that franchise as long as the Spanii own it. And the Spanii don't want anyone who'd call them out on the joke franchise they've been running anyway.

Yeah, that's bad. The rest of the uniform is nothing to write home about either.

Besides how the color makes them look gross and unwashed, whatever they were trying to do with the sleeves looks horrific, and the yellow trim on the jerseys and pants vibrates against the bone color and disappears from a distance. The stripes on the bone pants having only yellow and white was a questionable decision too. They also sometimes ruin the superior blue jerseys by wearing them with bone pants. I'm waiting for the day they go with white-over-bone or vice versa... now that will truly be an atrocity.

I still like everything about that look besides the alarm clock numbers and maybe the mismatched sleeve logos. Even with those poor choices, I still don't think they were worse than this... ...or this... ...or some of the crap that Reebok came up with over the years.

I don't love that Pistons Statement, but the only thing that's particularly egregious about it is that it's BFBS. The font is just a standard athletic block, not something completely out of left field, and it has their iconic two-toned stripe, just applied a different way. To me, the main problem with the Statement Edition is that most of the league just treats it as an excuse to go BFBS.

I've long thought that the Bucs could please everyone by simply swapping the prominence of orange and red in their current color scheme. In other words, orange and pewter with red trim instead of red and pewter with orange trim.

Also, looking back at KU's old uniforms in particular, I still don't see how the Giants couldn't make it work until 2000.

I don't know... how much of a mismatch Denver's helmets were often had to do with lighting, while those Giants helmets always looked like crap regardless of conditions. It's difficult to get an exact match with different materials, but I think it looks worse when a team doesn't even try (see also: Cowboys).

I've never bought the explanation that royal blue helmets were uniquely hard to make before the year 2000. Kentucky, BYU, Duke, Kansas, etc. had them at various times as far back as the '60s. When college football programs were able to do it in an era before bloated apparel deals from Adidas and Nike, there's no excuse for why NFL teams like the Giants and Rams couldn't do it besides laziness or just not caring about branding. And then there's the biggest counterpoint of all: the Broncos, who had royal blue helmets for almost 30 years at the same time that they supposedly couldn't be done for other teams.

"Ass" is exaggerating it, I think, but they're very uninspired.

Good point. They might have to pull the old "retire or you're fired" on Bill.

Of course the Patriots finally suck just in time for one of the most stacked QB classes in years. The schadenfreude isn't even enjoyable since it'll just end with them getting Caleb or Maye and ruining the NFL for another 10+ years.